Doctor Who: 10 Most-Viewed Scenes On YouTube Ranked Worst To Best

3. The Twelfth Doctor Regenerates (Twice Upon A Time)

Views: 7.4 million

The Twelfth Doctor's exit is the most popular regeneration scene on the official Doctor Who YouTube channel, 800,000 views ahead of the runner-up - the Tenth Doctor's.

This is likely due to the fact that Twelve's regeneration also introduced the first female Doctor, giving it that extra bit of buzz. But even if you put that to one side, a stellar Peter Capaldi speech and some Murray Gold musical magic are a wonderful combination that make this one of the greatest regeneration scenes of all time.

Set to Gold's track The Shepherd's Boy - which is most synonymous with Capaldi's best episode, Heaven Sent, but makes a welcome return for his final scene - this regeneration basically consists of Twelve reminding his future incarnations what the Doctor must be. He tells them to love, to be kind, to never be cruel, to never be cowardly. He reminds them that hate is foolish, that their name must remain a secret, and that pears are bad. Agreed on that last one, mate.

It was a lovely way for Capaldi to say goodbye, and it was also a fitting end to showrunner Steven Moffat's tenure too, because the speech touched on pretty much everything that his two Doctors were about. Cap the whole thing off with an insanely cool slo-mo TARDIS explosion shot, and this one's an absolute winner.

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for almost nine years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. He has been writing and video editing for 10+ years, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers and uploading them to YouTube (they're admittedly a bit rusty by today's standards). If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order or to tell you about the making of 1988's Remembrance of the Daleks, Danny is the person to ask.